The restaurant complex will target a moderate price segment for
the U.S., with an average meal going for $70–120.

The Food Retail Group, which owns
Dve Palochki, has already tested a similar concept in St. Petersburg. This
spring, in the House of Military Books on Nevsky Prospect, a new complex called
Biblioteka was opened, containing three restaurants with average meals costing
1,300 rubles, or $40. Earlier, the company reported that the cost of opening
the hub was 140 million rubles, or $4.3 million.

The Food Retail Group, which has
been renamed as Makers Lab, has been developing a chain of Dve Palochki
Japanese restaurants in Russia that now includes more than 30 sites
in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In addition, the company sells
Marcelli's, The Long Tail and Tao, and also owns
the Maza Park entertainment complex.